The night of the company Christmas party arrived. I felt pressured to go. I found myself standing in a corner, nursing a drink, while watching everyone.

Sarah was surrounded by people, laughing, animated. I felt a surge of resentment, a bitterness that threatened to consume me.

I made an excuse, slipped out of the party, and walked home. The cold night air couldn’t alleviate the tightness in my chest. The feeling would stick with me all the way home.

Emotion: vigilant

Cluster: Suspicion / Vigilance
PC1 (Valence): -0.15 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 1.11

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion vigilant. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 vigilant stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the vigilant emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the vigilant vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
🕵0.354
🔍0.320
🔎0.320
🧐0.316
scrutin0.310
Suppressed:
L-0.499
B-0.402
H-0.372
la-0.330
S-0.318